[ipxe-devel] BroadCom BCM5782KFB & UEFI BIOS ASROCK PROBLEM

[Andrew Bobulsky]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Victor Corjan <victor.corjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> First thanks for you works with this great project !!!! its cool!!!
>
> My problem
> I have BroadCom BCM5782KFB pci NIC (HP 321793-001 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Card)
> http://store.cwc-group.com/bcm5782kfb.html
> i create ipxe rom  for this board - 14e41696.rom (see attach)
> btw i use  ipxe compiled from source under ubuntu - in result ipxe.iso
> (see attach)
> after that (as describe in tutorial http://ipxe.org/howto/romburning)
> i flash 14e41696.rom in my BroadCom BCM5782KFB pci NIC - all OK
> but i have problem with boot ipxe:(
>
> - motherboard asrock H67M-GE http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H67M-GE/
> with uefi bios
>         - 64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with GUI support
> when i chose in bios boot from ipxe and restart i see ipxe
> initialising device... - and nothing ;(   (see screen-shots )
>
> pls help me - i need to boot from ipxe on this board asrock H67M-GE
> and this nic BroadCom BCM5782KFB pci NIC
>
> i also try to boot from ipxe.iso on this board asrock H67M-GE - the same result
> ipxe initialising device... - and nothing ;(
> additional info - when i see info on DSCF6307_cr.jpg and try to press
> ctrl-b - nothing to happen ;(
>
>
>
> ps some additional info - i also try to boot flashed with ipxe
> BroadCom BCM5782KFB pci NIC on other motherboard P5N7A-VM
> http://www.asus.com/Motherboard/P5N7AVM/
> with 8 Mb Flash ROM AMI BIOS, Green,PnP,DMI v2.0,Wfm2.0,ACPI v2.0a, SMBIOS v2.5
> and then in bios post-screen i see message - no enough space to copy
> PCI option ROM [01:06:00]
>
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Hello Victor,

I can't speak directly to your problem; I've not yet used iPXE with a
UEFI system.  One thing does come to mind, though.

On the iPXE download page, the EFI section says that building an EFI
ROM is different than building a BIOS ROM, and that makes sense to me.
 To build the proper EFI ROM for your card, run:

$ make bin-x86_64-efi/14e41696.efirom

...and try that instead.

Please keep in mind:  I have absolutely no idea if this is the right
course of action, but it makes sense to me.  I've only ever packed ROM
images into a BIOS mod myself... that somehow seemed less risky to me
than modifying a NIC ROM ;)

Cheers,
Andrew Bobulsky